In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

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An artist's rendering of a Pluto-like body colliding with a white dwarf star

For the first time, astronomers have observed something like a Pluto colliding with a white dwarf, the shriveled corpse of a medium-size star.

The white dwarf, dubbed WD 1647+375, is about 260 light-years away from Earth in Source: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-hubble-white-dwarf-icy-dwarf-planet

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